SNY and the Jets announced a renewal of their programming partnership, one that will give SNY even more access to the team. Which is fine, I suppose, as long as we lowly print scribes without partnership agreements still get what...

On Jan. 2, Newsday published a large, colorful graphic based on my assessment of the most and least vulnerable New York coaches and managers for 2009. Starting with the most vulnerable, they were Joe Girardi, Scott Gordon, Jerry Manuel, Gary...

SNY had the misfortune to strike its partnership with the Jets just in time for the famously loquacious Herman Edwards to leave and the famously tight-lipped (and restrictive) Eric Mangini to arrive. Now that Rex Ryan is in the house,...

Who is the worst of the worst?
That's one of the big questions as the NFL's regular season draws to a close, with a five-way tie at 2-11 among the Oakland Raiders, Tennessee Titans, New York Jets, Jacksonville Jaguars and Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The...

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Jim Schwartz might be a little nervous if he had not spent the first five years of his coaching career with five different teams, including his first stop as a graduate assistant at the University of Maryland.
So when Buffalo Bills coach Doug Marrone decided not to come back after the 2014 season and the Bills chose Rex Ryan over Schwartz to replace Marrone, there were no hard feelings.
There could have been. In one season as coordinator, Schwartz helped the Bills become one of the best defensive...

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — The headline writers at the New York tabloids figure to be heartbroken. On a Wednesday morning when they were having the time of their lives trumpeting the Patriots' deflated footballs controversy, the freak show that has been the Jets took a decidedly professional turn.
Todd Bowles didn't go all Rex Ryan bumptious.
Mike Maccagnan, a Trinity graduate in economics, didn't go all smarty-pants like John Idzik.
Although they are first-time head coach and first-time general...

With only one chance to make a first impression, Bears coach John Fox and general manager Ryan Pace announced to the football world Wednesday in Indianapolis that they had yet to make up their minds about Jay Cutler's future.
A deliberate Pace indeed.
Until the Bears do, it's fair to feel equally ambivalent about Fox and Pace — especially the rookie GM. We know Fox has coached two different NFL teams in Super Bowls. We know Pace worked in an organization that benefited from Drew Brees and Sean...

Ryan Pace's moment of truth arrived Wednesday when John Fox landed in Chicago to interview with the Bears' new general manager.
Hire Fox as coach and Pace will illustrate early in his tenure an ability to adapt quickly and close a deal, not to mention relieve pressure on himself. But hire anybody but the clearly most qualified coach and Pace instantly will cast doubt on the decision-making of a rookie GM, especially if he hires friend and former Saints colleague Doug Marrone, who quit on the Bills....

Peggy Kusinski made a conscious decision during the end of the Lovie Smith era. Unless the Bears coach said something particularly newsworthy — a rarity — she wasn't going to air soundbites from him during WMAQ-5 newscasts.
The policy carried over to much of Marc Trestman's two years.
"They never said anything," Kusinski said. "We only used Trestman (at the end) to point out the strangeness of his press conferences."
Jeff Dickerson, who covers the Bears for WMVP-AM 1000, also laments...

While interviewing Wednesday to become the Bears general manager, Ryan Pace answered a question about his favorite hobby.
"When Ryan said triathlons and started describing the Ironman in Austria he just completed (in June), he said the Bears guys just looked at him and were like, 'What?''' said Virginia Coffer, Pace's mother. "I think they were impressed.''
Without a doubt, the Bears liked nearly everything they heard from the Saints director of player personnel. They surprisingly named Pace the team'...